Re: CdG Zagorsk vs Kyoto

Re: CdG Zagorsk vs Kyoto

I personally prefer Zagorsk, but more because it reminds me of the cheaper incenses mixed with piney resins of poorer catholic churches. I don't know what orthodox churches do in Romania, but it's called Zagorsk (as in the russian city) because, supposedly, churches there mix incense with conifer resins.

Kyoto has no conifer resin note, is drier, cleaner and more austere. Avignon, which I also like a lot, is a more straightforward lithurgical incsense of a big catholic church. I have not smelled Ouarzate.

Re: CdG Zagorsk vs Kyoto

Originally Posted by PuddleMonkey

Kyoto is far superior

If I may... I think we should try to avoid making statements like this. You've given your opinion and stated it as a fact in a thread where someone doesn't know and is asking for different view points. So let's try not to unfairly mislead people eh?

Re: CdG Zagorsk vs Kyoto

Zagorsk is possibly the coldest incense based composition i've ever tried. It's litterally freezing just like walking in a siberian forest in November. Kyoto is an incredibly minimalistic and meditative composition that's a bit aseptic while still thoroughly enjoyable and distinctive. Personally I think Avignon is the most successful of the lot but, to properly appreciate it, you've to be into gothic church-y kind of fragrances.

Re: CdG Zagorsk vs Kyoto

Funny enough, everytime I try the series again, I always come up with a different order of preference.
While it was Avignon at first, my favourite then became Jaisalmer and now it's Quarzazate.

If I come across one of them at good prices, I wouldnt mind owning all of them as they stand as an exceptionally well executed study of incense.

I agree, it's absolutely worth owning the whole series, and I think there are few other incense scents that can rival these five. But they are all somewhat cold and dry, nothing cuddly about them, so you have to like that in a scent.

Luckyscent sells them as a gift set of 50 ml, and it used to be a reasonable way of getting them all in one sweep, but I see now that the price has gone up considerably since I got my set about three years ago.

Re: CdG Zagorsk vs Kyoto

I don't like the piney smell in Zagorsk and I wanted to know if Kyoto is similar. I like Avignon but it smells like a Romanian funeral and it makes everyone uncomfortable around me. Jaisalmer doesn't last and I haven't tested Ouarzazate yet.